Children under five are twice as likely to die in the UK than in Sweden

Children under five are twice as likely to die in the UK than in Sweden Why do so many young children die in the UK? Child mortality rates in the UK are higher than in many other European countries, and in a study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood we compared mortality rates for children younger than five in the UK and Sweden over a three-year period, from 2006 to 2008. We found that twice as many children under five died in the UK than in Sweden. The Independent

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